How did you first become interested in politics?

[TomLee475]

I grew up in a labour supporting family and I heard them talk about it and I went along with them.

I did politics A-Level because I wasn't keen on many subjects and thought it might be interesting, and so a life long fascination began.

My parents were voracious newspaper readers, particularly my mum.

I wasn’t until IndyRef got going and I started reading up on the different arguments to inform my vote, and got hooked.

Lived abroad where HIGNFY was one of the only programmes in English, so my parents explained it to me.
Dad took me to vote with him and I read election flyers (almost all Tory)

Then Section 28 and the poll tax. My parents swore they had no idea where I'd moved to so I never got a poll tax bill.

I was born in Belfast in the early 70s.🤣🤣🤣

As a child I was taken to see Robert Maxwell at the hustings who then became the Labour MP for my home constituency. How shameful was that? Thieving rotten man! After that watched TV debates and then Question Time when that started. My friends all had political views. Didn’t follow my family. I had my own ideas.

When Thatcher stood down, the receptionist brought the radio into my classroom and everyone danced after we had heard her speech. I think we were about 9 at the time.